After seeing the six episodes of Dany Turcotte’s documentary series on menI have only one word to say to him: “Thank you”.
Because in this series presented on Savoir media, we finally give the floor to Quebec men who live with school dropout, suicide, distress.
It’s crazy, we even talk about a certain “sexism” towards men!
IT’S A BEAUTIFUL MAN
Yes, it is possible to talk about “masculinity” in 2022 without constantly putting the adjective “toxic” next to it.
That’s what Dany Turcotte and director, screenwriter and producer Jean Roy have done in the six episodes of this series that I have watched over the past few days. Education, sexuality, parenthood, mental health: Jean and Dany gave the floor to specialists and “everymans” who talk about the specific problems that men experience. Higher suicide or dropout rate, lack of support resources, inability to talk about feelings.
- Listen to the interview with Dany Turcotte and Jean Roy on Sophie Durocher’s show broadcast live every day at 3:18 p.m. via QUB-radio :
Several interventions particularly marked me.
The director of a men’s aid group who says: “It’s not just the government that has to help. You know that there aren’t many companies in Quebec that partner with a men’s support group. Why? Because they too face the same prejudices as the general population. To associate with men’s aid groups is to associate with risk”.
The psychologist and education specialist Égide Royer who says that when we value female role models for girls, everyone applauds… but that we don’t react the same way when we say we have to more male role models for the boys.
A sexuality worker who says: “We were not taught to talk about our vulnerability, our sensitivity”.
And Dany Turcotte who affirms during one of his presentations: “We must adapt social services to the reality of men”.
Wow, that’s good to hear that. What men suffer the most in Quebec society is not being heard (really) and not being listened to (really).
For example, we learn in this documentary that the criteria used to diagnose depression are based on female behavior, which makes it more difficult to diagnose in men.
I’ll give you another example: don’t you think that we could better tackle the problem of feminicides if we treated the anger of certain men before they take action?
The only criticism I can make of the documentary is that it gave so much importance to the author and professor Francis Dupuis-Déri who declares, in a completely caricatural way, that those who want to help men in crisis always blame women and feminists. Nothing could be further from the truth! What a ridiculous generalization!
We can very well see the distress and the rout of certain men without being a racy masculinist or an aggressive incel.
TRUE FEMINISM IS HUMANISM
In fact, there is a second word that I would like to say to Dany Turcotte. It is the word: “Finally!” It’s been a long time since we’ve seen a series like this in Quebec.
The last time we heard of the “disarray” of men was thanks to Denise Bombardier and her series for Radio-Canada… in 2002.